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Even when on the morning of her wedding, Danielle woke up with contractions she decided to press on.

Danielle said she could feel the contractions when the couple took their vows but she still managed to pose for a picture while signing the registry

'We’d invited fifty guests and I’d
managed to find a beautiful long white wedding dress to accommodate my
big bump. Then the registry office and our reception at a local pub was
all booked – not to mention a wedding cake and buffet that had been
prepared. So after all that, I was determined to marry,' she said.

Contractions
continued throughout the morning. 'At times it was difficult to sit
still while my hair was being done,' she admits.

And by the time she and Aaron said their vows, the pains were coming thick and fast.

Paddy was introduced to family and friends at the evening reception

'Fortunately, we didn’t have to stop at any point but I know some guests did become concerned as they could tell when I was having a particularly painful contraction just by looking at my face.'

Amazingly, in between pains, she managed a smile for the camera as she and Aaron signed the register.

And the couple even attended their wedding breakfast straight after – although Danielle could only manage a sandwich from her wedding buffet.

But at 5.30pm – just as the evening do was getting underway – she decided to go to hospital.

'The pains were much stronger,' she said, 'and my mum said she thought I should get out of my wedding dress.'

Aaron drove her to hospital where midwives just had time to fill a birthing pool before half an hour later at 6.27pm Danielle gave birth to Paddy.

She says: 'I was so relieved I’d got there in time – in hindsight I had no idea how close I came to having Paddy at the reception.'

After being given a clean bill of health, at 10pm the couple popped back to the reception with their newborn baby.

'Incredibly when we looked at our wedding cake, it had a little newborn in icing on it,' she says, 'everyone was so thrilled to see us.

'Aaron and I both felt so proud – becoming a Mrs and a mum of two on the same day was fantastic. And we couldn’t have asked for a better wedding present.'

The pair say their vows during the ceremony and hours later their son Paddy was born

Danielle said people joked that she would give birth on the wedding day but nobody actually believed it would happen

The couple were delighted to find that a newborn figurine had been placed on their cake while at the hospital

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Bride gives birth to baby boy on her wedding day... but still makes it back in time to show off newborn